From: "Adrian Smith" <Adrian AT atpelectronics DOT connectfree DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject: Re: Pointers and Arrays (Newbie)
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 09:38:36 +0100
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Thanks Simon,
                            I appreciate what you've said about declerations
and defenitions, but why does it allow you to define the contents of a
character array element in the header file, if all defenitions should be in
cpp-files and declerations in header files. ??

Simon Sulser <simonsulser AT hotmail DOT com> wrote in message
news:8ivoqt$imj$1 AT news1 DOT sunrise DOT ch...
> You should only put declarations in header files and all definitions in
> cpp-files. Maybe you included your header several times in different cpp
> files.
>
> -- header file --
>
> // decleration
> extern char const * message;
>
> -- cpp file --
>
> #include "header.h"
>
> // definition
> char const *message = "Blablablabla";
>
> Of course if you only need message in one cpp file you don't have to write
> the declaration into a header file at all. You can even declare it as
> static, which means it's local to this cpp file.
>
>